Happy Yule!

Wishing you all a nice stack of folklore books under your Christmas Tree, Yule log, Hannukah Bush, Festivus Pole, Kwanzaa thingy.   Whether you believe in Krampus, St. Nick, Hannukah Harry or Schwartzer Peter - enjoy the holiday season with any of these new folklore releases:

• Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights - Marina Warner.  Vintage Books.
• Appalachia Mountain Folklore - Michael Rivers.   Schiffer Publishing.
• First Timers and Old Timers - Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed.  Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, University of North Texas Press.
• Folk Tales of the Maldives - Xavier Romero-Frias.  Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions - Raphael Patai and Haya Bar-Itzhak, eds.  M. E. Sharpe.
• Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System - Katrina Hazzard-Donald.  University of Illinois Press.
• Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe - Roger L. Welsch.  Bison Books.
• Trickster and Hero: Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World - Harold Sheub. University of Wisconsin Press.
• Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon - Betty Mindlin.  Verso Books.
• Irish Myth, Lore and Legend on Film - Dawn Duncan.  Reimagining Ireland; Peter Lang.
• The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young - Scott Baretta.  Scarecrow Press.